July 2010
22 posts
Story of my life right here:
“‘So you’re Ana’s little friend,’ Manny said.
‘That’s me,’ Oscar said in a voice so full of cheerful innocuousness that he could have shot himself for it.”
From The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
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And we're back
The power actually came back at 3 a.m. on Monday, but then five minutes later the transformer on our side of the street exploded. I have used this simile several times already but I’ll use it again, because it is the only one I find fitting: it was like seeing a chorus of angels appear only to watch them drop dead and their beautiful, phone-charging, house-cooling light disappear. So today...
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“When in doubt, you can never go wrong with a blue Oxford Shirt”
– Jak & Jil
I have three fans pointed at me right now. What the fuck is this.
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Ansel Herz: How to Write about Haiti →
You are struck by the ‘resilience’ of the Haitian people. They will survive no matter how poor they are. They are stoic, they rarely complain, and so they are admirable. The best poor person is one who suffers quietly. A two-sentence quote about their misery fitting neatly into your story is all that’s needed.
On your last visit you became enchanted with Haiti. You are in love...
Yikes, my circadian rhythm is… nonexistent.
I sleep for 12 hours and I’m not tired again for another 18ish. This always tends to happen in the middle of the summer.
I think I’m gonna fall asleep at like 9 a.m. Gotta get up at noon… eff.
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This Is Just to Say
by William Carlos Williams
I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox
and which you were probably saving for breakfast
Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold
damon-king:
Rill Rill, Sleigh Bells
Another...
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There are two kinds of sleep. There’s that kind you get around midnight when you get into bed cause it’s dark out, and you know you should just close your eyes and get some rest. Then there’s the sleep that gets you after an 18-hour day when your auto-piloting adrenaline wears off and you collapse physically and mentally beneath the covers. You suddenly feel that intense aching...
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Konichiwa ;"))
Uniqlo makes me feel okay about being broke. Uniqlo lets me forget my problems in its four stories of t-shirts arranged in orderly ROYGBIV spectrums. Uniqlo is the pinnacle of Japanese innovation and mass production.
Really though, they’re selling jeans for $19.90 and a ton of other sales on the daily until July 8. I mean really good, make-we-wish-I-lived-here prices (at least this week)....
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Let's Colour →
More important problems in the world shmore shmimportant shmoblems in the shmorld.
